How SalMar has halved lice treatment mortality A strong focus on details and teamwork has helped Norwegian salmon farmer SalMar almost halve the number of fish that die as a result on mechanical delousing operations.
Norway: Fish farmers go to court to fight biomass cut Salmon and trout farmers in one of Norway’s “traffic light” aquaculture areas have begun a legal fight against an order to reduce fish production.
No standing still for Mowi in dynamic fight against lice Mowi has drawn up a strategy for the use of preventive measures against lice. “We are implementing it now,” says Henrik Trengereid, group manager for seawater technology in the company’s global R&D department.
Project dives deeper into sea lice lives to target treatment more precisely A study into the feasibility of enhancing sophisticated marine modelling software for more targeted control of sea lice is to take place.
Early lice problems for Havfarm Salmon farmer Nordlaks has resorted to medicinal lice treatment of fish in its giant Havfarm after two months of operation, Norwegian news outlet E24 reports.
Salmon farmers get the all-clear over translucent lice Fears that lighter coloured and translucent sea lice may be harder to count and less vulnerable to cleaner fish have proved unfounded, according to fish health companies in Norway.
Cutting the lice problem with ‘genetic scissors’ An international effort to discover if the resistance that Pacific salmon have to sea lice can be gene edited into Atlantic salmon has begun.
Fine-mesh crowding net ‘can cut lice challenges in half’ A net that captures lice that fall off farmed salmon and trout when the fish are being crowded in a pen for treatment or harvesting may offer an economical way to reduce the problem of parasites.
LiceTube ready for sale ‘within one or two years’ A revolutionary in-cage de-lousing system that lures salmon through a treatment tube using a counter-current and lights could be available commercially available within 12-24 months, its inventor has predicted.
Lice ‘set the agenda’ for Faroes farmer HiddenFjord Sea lice, not Covid-19, have been the main challenge for Faroese salmon farmer HiddenFjord this year, according to managing director Atli Gregersen.
Sea lice levels and low UK prices hurt Grieg Shetland High sea lice levels and low market prices contributed to losses of NOK 12.36 (£1.06) per kilo for salmon farmer Grieg Seafood Shetland in the second quarter of this year.
Fish farmer buys five closed cages for ‘green permit’ site Closed cage supplier Fiizk has secured its largest contract to date, for five cages that will comprise a new salmon farm. The order from SinkabergHansen is linked to the Norwegian salmon farmer’s purchase of a “green permit” for an extra 827 tonnes of biomass.
Kvaroy’s land-based venture goes with the flow Norwegian salmon producer Kvaroy Arctic is diversifying into land-based farming to complement its traditional net pen operations.
Mowi dives deep to beat lice problem Mowi Scotland and aquaculture supplier AKVA group Scotland have given details of a commercial validation trial of AKVA’s Tubenet that recently began at the salmon farmer’s Port na Cro farm, Argyll and Bute.
